Thanks, at present however I think we will simply remove
the zip drive alltogether.
This still leaves me with the problem of not being able
to disable the legacy plug and play option for the
existing parallel port.
As I said I had tried disconnecting the drive and un-
installing the Iomega software and drivers. I have also
tried uninstalling and re-installing the driver for the
parallel port.
However once I uncheck the option and restart windows I
find it checked again at startup. Prior to installing the
Iomega drivers it wasn't doing this. I did notice that
the driver states it installs Microsoft hot fixes Q281428
and Q321064. I thought maybe they changed the way this
particular option is handled.
The only thing I have not tried yet is manually changing
the setting under the registry via
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Paral
lel\Parameters
>-----Original Message-----
>My suggestion would either:
>
>Purchase a PCI card that contains one or more parallel
ports and connect
>either the Zip drive to that. Then you can configure the
present port on
>the computer exclusively for the printer.
>
>or:
>Get a Zip that connects to a USB port (if present on
your computer,
>preferably USB 2 specification) or an internal Zip that
connects to the
>IDE controller if there be an unused port.
>
>Let us know.
>
>Tom MSMVP
>Windows Shell/User
>
>"Peter McKeon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:11e801c4abff$d5f28ef0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>: I've been working on a problem with printing on a
Brother
>: HL-1230 printer.
>:
>: When I attempted to print a document that contained
more
>: than one page the first page prints but then the rest
sit
>: in the queue endlessly.
>:
>: Testing the printer with another machine also running
XP
>: the documents print fine.
>:
>: The printer is running via an Iomega Zip 100 (Paralell)
>: drive, however disconnecting this and connecting the
>: printer directly makes no difference.
>:
>: I do seem to have isolated the cause down to
the 'Enable
>: legacy Plug and Play detection' setting for the LPT1
>: port. If I turn this setting off the printer works
fine,
>: however turning this setting off also disables the zip
>: drive. I decided to try using the drivers provided by
>: Iomega rather than the native XP support, including a
>: patch to resolve slow access problems under XP.
>:
>: Since installing the Iomega drivers however I am unable
>: now to turn off the 'Enable legacy Plug and Play
>: detection' setting. Even after uninstalling the driver
>: once I uncheck this option and restart the machine it
is
>: checked again upon startup.
>:
>: Any ideas on resolving this would be appreciated.
>
>
>.
>
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